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if jesus christ is the only way as the bible says. What is the fate of millions of people born into other religions as it seems thatmost peoples beliefs are as a result of the fact that they were born into a particular faith and thier parents thought them to follow that faith?
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I think the other poster was saying was refusal to accept Jesus results in death after death. Not like, "I reject this..blah..blah..." Now I go out the church, and BAM! I get hit by a car & killed!
Here's the answer to the question: Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father except through HIM-Jesus. It's simple.
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The important thing to know is that you have to make the decision for yourself. No one can do it for you. The bible also says that if anyone tries to enter in by any other way but through Jesus he is a thief and a robber. He didn't die to give us a multiple choice way into Heaven. He died to be the only way.
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Again, He is the ONLY Way.
For those of you who embrace a religion of ONLYistic absolutism, it clearly is the ONLY way. Your choice of the Bible as the ONLY true scripture, and your insistence that your interpretation of it is the ONLY correct one are valid ONLY for you, nobody else.
For those of you who embrace a religion of ONLYistic absolutism, it clearly is the ONLY way. Your choice of the Bible as the ONLY true scripture, and your insistence that your interpretation of it is the ONLY correct one are valid ONLY for you, nobody else.
Nobody else except those who are in agreement with the persons who hold that viewpoint.
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The same can be said of any belief-be it scientific theory, hypotheses, aesthetics, morality, or ethics, etcetera. So there really isn't any distinction here at all. You have people who believe that they can trace themselves to an apelike ancestor and from there to a piglike one who just happened to have survived a mass extinction, and then top a reptile and then to a fishlike one. Right? Yet that might be true for him but there are those to whom that isn't true at all.
So your criticism has to be applied to people who do the same in all areas of knowledge, not just the religious. Which means that your logic will set you against the whole human race.
One thing is for certain, we all have free will. We choose what, who, and why we believe. Cal me a Bible Thumper, fanatic, ONLYistic, whatever...I choose to believe He is the ONLY way. I don't make the rules and I'm not perfect, but what if I'm right? What if there's more than just "exisitng" and then death? I look at it this way, say the Bible is right and Jesus is the only way, what do I have to lose while I'm here? Nothing, but I have so much to gain! If the rules and guidelines in the Bible are followed as closely as possible, what kind of human being will that make of someone? You would be able to trust that person, respect them, and know they will always be generous, kind, and I guarantee that person can reach Heaven when you have a need. I know a lot of people who have different religious preferences than my own and you want to know what is sad? A lot of them don't believe in divine healing, yet when they are sick or need something desperately, those same people ask for me to pray. So again, what do you have to lose by just believing?
If the rules and guidelines in the Bible are followed as closely as possible, what kind of human being will that make of someone? You would be able to trust that person, respect them, and know they will always be generous, kind, and I guarantee that person can reach Heaven when you have a need.
There are tons of us who don't read the bible and are kind, generous, respectable people. People who are kind, generous and respectable exist all over the place regardless of religion, in the same manner as there are bible thumpers who are just plain bad people.
...If the rules and guidelines in the Bible are followed as closely as possible, what kind of human being will that make of someone? You would be able to trust that person, respect them, and know they will always be generous, kind...
A nice thought and yes, one would think that is the way it would be... but as so many continue to prove over and over, thats just not the way it is.
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